The History of Microsoft - 1978

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For Microsoft, 1978 begins with the announcement of the Microsoft COBOL-80, which conforms to the 1974 ANSI standards for 8080, Z80, and 8085 microprocessor systems. We establish our first
international sales office and fiscal year sales for the first time exceed one million dollars . Oh and of course, it was the year of Andy Gibb.

Microsoft COBOL-80, which conforms to the 1974 ANSI standards for 8080, Z80, and 8085 microprocessor systems, is announced.

November 1, 1978

Microsoft establishes its first international sales office in Japan, ASCII Microsoft.

November 6, 1978

Microsoft announces the availability of Microsoft EDIT-80, a random access, line oriented text editor for 8080 and Z-80 systems. EDIT-80 is the first microcomputer editor with random line access to floppy disk files.

December 1, 1978

Microsoft announces Microsoft Macro-80 for 8080; Z-80. The 14K assembler is the fastest macro assembler currently on the microcomputer market, assembling over 1000 lines per minute.

December 1, 1978

Microsoft announces the availability of Microsoft FORTRAN-80 Compiler for TRS-80.

December 31, 1978

Microsoft's year-end sales exceed $1 million at $1,355,655. There are 13 employees.

The modern parts are widescreen and the 90s footage of Bill is not so it got stretched. To fix it the entire video would have to be re-edited and even though the incorrect aspect ratio annoys me too I don't think they're going to bother fixing it.

Yeah, I guess the original project could be opened and the old footage could be squished back to 4:3 then the whole thing re-rendered. Glad to hear she's planning on fixing it because the videos are too good to have something like that messing them up.

I am so on this people. As we speak (type) I am working on the Bill Gates cranium issue. Starting next week I think we will be good to go. If you guys think 1979 works as far as aspect ratio goes than I can use that as my template going forward. Again,
thank you for your patience.

Yeah we would not want some future historian to find the videos and start a theory that bill was some kind of mutant with an ugly head.... picture some team 10,000 years down the road looking at it and wondering if they had his genes etc....
or if we all used to have strange heads in the 20th and 21st century....

Again a great video! For all of you out there, check the movie "´Pirates of silicon valley". It tells the story of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates in the early days, very funny ...

I would like to add one last thing to the 16:9 and 4:3 aspect ratio discussion. If you fix the next show, it would be great to have a real 16:9 video, not a 4:3 video that contains a 16:9 video (showing Tina) that contains 4:3 videos (showing Bill Gates).